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... the ... the huge blast lots the Lebanese capital Beirut ... killing a former finance Minister Mohamad shut up and sending plumes of black smoke across the skyline ... this is your Friday morning news of mine Paul vignette ... joining us now live from Beirut by phone ... is Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent Maria Abi had been ... Maria what can you tell us right now ... the riveting great depression ... or did the mature ... and canopy to keep the nation strength she caught up to get their ticket that is ... one in meeting the need to try it and or a car bomb blast on ... a ... rock ... Levanon and a bargain ... and which is becoming really worrying eight that the ... increased violence here ... um ... many people think that it really did keep the ongoing civil war in Syria which it really ... I and and then you repeat it it between Shia and the need here ... throughout the region and particularly in Levanon ... but I'll ... check back with a strong ... supporter ... and actually helped rally the intention PT around ... the special tribunals ... to on repeat the happenings in ... if the Beattie who retire or pregnant ... I didn't want me to believe when the a ... and a pack of them are carried out by Syrian government ... so ... what is being and carried ... her to be entered in Levanon ... and do you think are quite murky each year ... not only that but even tougher divided but ... they couldn't go on again what the candidate on any regional game ... we have to be between competing heart that ... year I ... think that that Uribe is well ... under which it really intensified in the period and that I've been ... at it than that ... dwelling on that corner ... with races this ... the last two plays and ... shopping district ... as I understand and leave the leases of five wickets in the nude ... injured but how how does it seem I know it's early to say but how ... does seem that this actually was ... specifically targeting ... Mr should top ... the unintended room table but at the end it seemed that ... they pretty much a target became ... a ... boat would end the route downtown area which is not right thing I can show and the shopping area with a notch and Gucci and to go ... with it and I feel that people aren't ... thinking I pod ... I'm that have been on ... the up-to-date area of the town with a chilling out much there ... aam and ... and ended the day they illegally killed that the future path and ... working to get security detail ... so ... it was very very ... and that the unit it appears that the ... yes ... just ... talking to you right now ... I'm hearing your voice are you feeling about this ... on what is the sense in Beirut Levanon I mean how worried are you there that ... I knew that the Syrian civil war in really spilling into Levanon ... I mean you know it's ... I think the thinking is that ... at the time ... we ... will not comment about three hundred or the kind of the EU fifteen years ... from seventy five ninety ... by year EQT eleven on Boeing it inconvenient play ... aam ... to her regional powers to a ... few implement their agenda and then knocking print on average it ... but none had it ... you know Harriet not just the board of the regional competition the lap of ... the interview I mentioned below is actively supporting the ... US led ... forces there and the like had he been caught ... him again in the snow ... we are being ... the rebel group ... of Levanon Continental in the league again in October a Pringle up until the pumpkin ... it has been ... updated to make a ... lot of the bunch and you can but you don't allow them to go to the al in the lecture powers that be ... the Levanon to tell you a very weak eight ... I like Turkey and ... Jordan ... and it's much easier to push things through the port in Curie the only ... what they the arm or ... Milliken and Pfau ... and ... and ... he had ... allowed the theory working ... it's really not ... so ... and ... remove ... and leave it that thank you very much appreciate time this morning ...